Platforms Other Than Blogger and WP?

At one point I did consider moving to livejournal but I found that it hosts unwanted ads on your pages and there are not many options for customization other than the stylesheet. For people who want to monetize or for those who want to bring some liveliness in their blogs, it is definitely not the option. It is just like maintaining your personal diary online and not for serious writing. It does have one good option though, it publicizes blogs well but then we have bloggers' communities like Indiblogger to do that so its negligible.

Hi Prashant. In my opinion there is nothing Wordpress

Blogger is quite inferior to a custom WP install. you can run a complete corporate website, magazine, ecommerce business etc on WP and on the other hand casual bloggers can use it for their purposes.

Tumblr, Livejournal, blogger are all in the same league, whereas WP is way ahead both in terms of develpoment and also in terms of community support and contribution.

To the casual blogger it really doesn't matter what you choose but if you start needing more and more customized blogs then WP is your answer.

I have used all of the above services and now have finally settled on WP since I have my own domain and custom WP install.

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Have you guys tried drupal.org It is a complete CMS and can be used to create custom sites. If the purpose is just blogging + some other little things then WP is best.

If you plan to have a complete website along with the blog then drupal just rocks.